Is the Red Sea the New Hormuz Crisis? |
Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at Houthi attacks on Red Sea shipping, India’s escalating Cockroach movement protests, and an Israel-shaped roadblock in the U.S.-Saudi nuclear deal.
U.S. President Donald Trump vowed to hold Iran responsible on Thursday for future Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabian ships, just hours after the Yemeni rebel group targeted two Saudi oil tankers in the Red Sea. Although no casualties were reported, threats to another key shipping route risk adding a new front to the Iran war and worsening the already destabilized global energy market.
Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at Houthi attacks on Red Sea shipping, India’s escalating Cockroach movement protests, and an Israel-shaped roadblock in the U.S.-Saudi nuclear deal.
U.S. President Donald Trump vowed to hold Iran responsible on Thursday for future Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabian ships, just hours after the Yemeni rebel group targeted two Saudi oil tankers in the Red Sea. Although no casualties were reported, threats to another key shipping route risk adding a new front to the Iran war and worsening the already destabilized global energy market.
“[I]f they do this again, the U.S. will hold Iran responsible, in that the Houthis are a Surrogate and/or Proxy of Iran, and major military punishment will be inflicted upon Iran and, of course, the Houthis, themselves,” Trump wrote on Truth Social on Thursday, adding that the rebel group—whose official slogans include “Death to America”—had previously acted “very responsibly” and “very professionally.”
Last week, Houthi leadership accused Saudi Arabia of bombing Yemen’s Sanaa International Airport to prevent an Iranian plane from landing; the aircraft was reportedly carrying Houthi rebels who had attended the funeral of former Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Yemen’s internationally recognized government, which is heavily backed by Saudi Arabia, claimed responsibility for the attack; in response, the Houthis launched missile and drone strikes on Saudi Arabia’s Abha International Airport........